WattWise vs RBM Smart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WattWise
This app provides real-time insights into your home's energy usage and solar production. It helps you identify patterns, control appliances, and optimize behavior for cost savings. Receive notifications about abnormal usage and get tips for a more energy-efficient home.
- Real-time energy usage monitoring
- Solar production tracking
- Appliance control
- Automated appliance management
- Energy cost optimization
- Abnormal usage notifications
- Energy efficiency reports
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Arcadia Energy’s WattWise is the most powerful and intelligent integrated hardware/software system for visualizing and managing energy in the residential solar setting. Powered by CURB, WattWise helps easily identify energy usage and production patterns, control appliances, and optimize behavior for ultimate cost-savings. Through sensors that connect directly to your breaker panel, WattWise measures your electrical usage on a circuit-by-circuit basis, giving you real-time information about your home’s power consumption and solar production. Integration with Samsung’s SmartThings platform and our new WattWise Control Panel enables users to directly control appliances in the home and automate appliance controls for demand management. WattWise ties together your solar production and home energy usage to show you what’s driving the cost of your electricity bill, pinpoint and control problem areas, and send real-time notifications about abnormal energy usage. Periodic reports give insights and tips to make your home smarter, more energy efficient and safer. Take control of your energy costs with WattWise.
RBM Smart
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: WattWise at 9.0 against RBM Smart's 15.1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WattWise ships an update every 6 weeks, RBM Smart every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WattWise | RBM Smart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Curb, Inc. | R.B.M. SPA |
In-app purchases
WattWise
No in-app purchases
RBM Smart
No in-app purchases
